Venturi Astrolab, also known as Astrolab, is a US-based company that designs, builds, and operates multi-purpose rovers for lunar and Martian surfaces. As a strategic partner of the Venturi Group, it focuses on providing mobility solutions for crew transport, cargo delivery, and scientific exploration. Their primary product is the FLEX rover, designed for versatility and adaptability in extreme environments and they have partnered with companies like SpaceX and Astrobotic for lunar missions, and is working with NASA to develop a Lunar Terrain Vehicle for the Artemis program.
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Venturi Astrolab Inc. is developing the large multi-purpose rovers FLEX and FLIP for advanced exploration of the Moon.
NASA selected proposals led by Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost, and Venturi Astrolab for its Lunar Terrain Vehicle Services program on 2024-04-03.
NASA selected teams led by Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost, and Venturi Astrolab for the LTV program.
Venturi Astrolab’s contract for LTV development is worth up to $1,900,000,000.
Since March 2022, Venturi Astrolab has conducted thousands of hours of laboratory and field testing on the FLEX rover that led to numerous design improvements.
Venturi Astrolab plans to send a robotic version of its FLEX rover to the moon on a SpaceX Starship mission in late 2026.
NASA selected Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost, and Venturi Astrolab on 2024-04-03 for the Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) Services contract.
Venturi Astrolab reached agreements with eight enterprise customers to use its Flexible Logistics and Exploration (FLEX) rover to deploy those customers’ payloads on Astrolab’s Mission 1 to the Moon.
Venturi Astrolab Inc. (Astrolab) secured eight customers with contracts worth more than $160,000,000 for its first lunar mission in 2026.
Venturi Astrolab in Hawthorne, California received a 2022 ACO selection to demonstrate lunar tire technology with NASA Glenn and NASA Johnson.
Venturi Astrolab of Hawthorne, California will provide consulting support for integration into the overall system architecture of its FLEX rover as a baseline robotic mobility platform operating a suite of excavation tools.
In March, Venturi Astrolab unveiled a prototype lunar rover that it recently tested in Death Valley, California.
Venturi Astrolab built a full-sized FLEX prototype and tested it near Death Valley, California.
Venturi Astrolab developed and tested a prototype lunar rover called Flexible Logistics and Exploration (FLEX).